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This year, the girl, who listens to the tipsters will come up with a gift-wrapped riding crop with handle made of deer-antler, lash of red leather, and ferrule of silver--if she doesn't fetch home something worse. Something worse is apt to be a wicker basket filled with small cakes and scented soap, each wrapped in chamois; Somaliland leopard and suede slippers, a nylon umbrella with an imported handle, or a book titled "Sporting Architecture...
Mangabeira had long sessions with close-mouthed President Dutra. In the wicker-chaired lobby of the musty-genteel Central Hotel, Army officers, party leaders and Cabinet Ministers waited their turn to join the sessions in his room. The likely outcome: an agreement to forget petty politicking in Congress and tackle the nation's considerable economic ills together. Perhaps later Brazil would have a coalition cabinet...
...bread was fine for her son; neighbors also found it fine. Like many Americans, they were tired of the mass-produced American bread scientifically refined until it is purified of almost all taste. At their urging, Mrs. Rudkin took eight loaves in a wicker basket to a nearby grocer. They were sold so fast that she set up a bakery of her own in the stable of her Pepperidge Farm, hired a neighbor girl, Mary Ference, to help her bake. In three months she had sold $2,500 worth of bread. By September 1938, the end of her first year...
...warm Mediterranean air around the little French town of Grasse was heavy with the fragrance of carnations, jasmine and roses. Working in quick-fingered teams, the white-bloused girls of Grasse filled wicker baskets with blossoms, carried them to the huge stills to have the odorous oils extracted. Combined and transmuted by chemists, they will be dabbed behind the ears of women throughout the world to multiply the risk of genteel seduction...
...scene was Warsaw's renovated, horseshoe-shaped Parliament Hall. One by ore, the members walked to a wicker basket in front of the speaker's dais to vote in Poland's first postwar presidential election. Everyone knew that the winner would be Boleslaw Bierut, who for 24 months had been the Communist-stooge Provisional President...